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You are entitled to your opinion, but I would have to disagree. You haven't read the books so how can you judge what is in them? Yes, I believe the Bible and yes the Bible is enough for me. But reading both of these books have brought peace to me and encouragement. I am not saying that they are more important than the Bible. I am not putting them at the same level of the Bible. They are biographies about two people and I read them just as I would have read any other book and take from it what I wanted to. I don't think they turn people away from the Bible...if anything they make people want to know more about the Bible and what it says. Plus, I would much rather read these than "Twilight" series. :) In my opinion both of these books "Heaven is for Real" and " 90 Minutes in Heaven" are worth your read. Form your own opinion after you have read them, not by listening to others who may have a biased opinion because of their experience with certain people.

Truly you are right that the Bible should be enough for us, but what's wrong with a little more convincing after all the Bible was written by people that we have never met long before any of our times and with all the translations and through the years do we know that exactly what was wriiten was translated correctly....of course not...that is if you are honest with yourself!!

I would argue that you are experiencing a false peace. True peace can be found in God’s Word, which is objective. The Burpo’s story, while heart-warming, is completely subjective.

A biography is “the written history of a person’s life. “Heaven is For Real” is the written account of retold memories of a 4 year old of a specific event in his life.

“This then is THE primary problem I see with this (in and of itself) innocuous little tome. The problem is NOT whether Colton might have had some genuine sort of experience of Heaven or not. The problem is (as is evidenced both in the book itself several times – AND by one or two people I’ve spoken with personally) that we are willing to find more comfort and encouragement about the reality of Heaven and some of its supposed features – from the subjective experience of a gravely ill little boy – than we are from the Bible and God’s own revelation of these things. It is as though the Holy Spirit’s revelation is inadequate for us.The problem isn’t as much with the book and its material itself – the problem is what it reveals about us! That we know so little of what the Bible teaches about this subject, and are so little interested what God has to say about it – or are so little comforted by it – that we will find our hope rather in Colton’s experience.” ~Reid Ferguson

I certainly did not read any of the Twilight books for any sort of spiritual nourishment! If you want to put “Heaven is For Real” on the same level as the Twilight series that’s fine by me! I would actually recommend that people do read “Heaven is For Real” as a fictional, feel-good, for entertainment purposes only story.

My opinion is based on the bias of Scripture. “Heaven is For Real” does not line up with God’s Word and is not theologically sound.